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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 10, 2020
April 10 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 108
"To those who wish us harm, make no mistake: even with the challenges that this disease has brought to our shores, the Department of Defense stands ready to meet any threat and defend our nation," Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Norquist said during a news conference at the Pentagon on April 9.
Tags : Coronavirus crisis , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Economic downturn , Global peace , IMF , Lockdowns , Parliamentary election , International Relations and Diplomacy
Rethinking National Security in an Age of Pandemics
April 10 , 2020 PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 154
National security has traditionally been defined and understood in military terms. This notion of national security focuses on threats such as external armed aggression, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorism, insurgencies etc.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , insurgency , Internal Security , Jammu and Kashmir , Left Wing Extremism , national security , National Security Strategy , North-East , Pakistan , Pandemic , Security , Terrorism
भारत के स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र को नया जीवन
April 10 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 122
कोविड-19 के खिलाफ हमारी जंग में चिकित्सक और स्वास्थ्यकर्मी नायक रहे हैं। इसीलिए निजी सुरक्षा उपकरणों की कमी के कारण उनमें से कई को संक्रमित होते देखकर कष्ट होता है। देश के सामने अस्पताल की शैया, वेंटिलेटर, जांच किट, मास्क जैसे जरूरी उपकरणों की भारी किल्लत है। किल्लत दूर करने की कोशिश की जा रही है, लेकिन ये सब अल्पकालिक उपाय ही हैं। कोरोनावायरस महामारी ने यह भी बताया है कि स्वास्थ्य सुरक्षा राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा का आवश्यक अंग है।
Tags : COVID-19 , Hindi , कोरोनावायरस महामारी , कोरोनावायरस संकट , कोविड-19 , जांच किट , जीडीपी , मास्क , राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा , वेंटिलेटर , स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र , स्वास्थ्य सुरक्षा , Governance and Political Studies
Afghanistan: Taliban abandons the 'peace talks'
April 9 , 2020 Dr Yatharth Kachiar, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 251
Amid the global pandemic, when the countries are fighting for their very survival, the war in Afghanistan is slowly simmering. On Tuesday, the Taliban directed their negotiating team to end the ongoing discussions with the Afghan government on 'prisoner swap'. As stipulated in the troop withdrawal agreement signed by the US and the Taliban in February 2020, the prisoner swap was a necessary precondition to initiate the intra-Afghan talks. The decision by the insurgent group to end the negotiations has threatened to unravel the troop withdrawal agreement between the US and the Taliban.
Tags : Afghanistan , Afghanistan , aid cut , COVID-19 , Hazara minorities , India , minorities , Peace talks , Sikh minorities , Taliban , Terrorism , troop withdrawal , US , War , Neighbourhood Studies
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 9, 2020
April 9 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 209
Medical Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients
Tags : Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Infections , Local healthcare , lockdown , Pandemic , Wildlife trade , Wuhan , International Relations and Diplomacy
Rejuvenating India’s health sector
April 8 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 281
Doctors and healthcare workers are the heroes of our battle against COVID 19. It is, therefore, painful to see that many of them contracted the infection because of lack of personal protective gears. The country faces an acute shortage of essential equipment like hospital beds, ventilators, testing kits, masks, et cetera. Efforts are being made to meet the shortages but these are at best short term measures. The coronavirus endemic has also highlighted that health security is an essential part of national security.
Tags : APIS , Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme , Disease Surveillance mechanisms , GDP on health , Health Cess , health R & D , Healthcare infrastructure , India's Health sector , medical devices sector , medical education , preventive healthcare , shortage of Doctors , Telemedicine , Governance and Political Studies
COVID-19 ails the Beijing Model
April 8 , 2020 Aayush Mohanty, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 427
The United Nations Security Council, the premium forum to discuss threats to global peace and security, is yet to discuss COVID-19. An attempt to address the Virus was blocked by China last month while it served as the Chair of the Security Council. As casualties continue to mount, the world faces a dire crisis of this magnitude for the first time since the Second World War. One needs to question the role of the People's Republic of China in international affairs and the heft it carries at multilateral institutions.
Tags : China , COVID-19 , Multilateralism , WHO , China , Neighbourhood Studies
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